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New letter u for Blackwell Ultra.
The tensor cores are different enough to justify this. Main use case for GPUs in clouds is AI and the tensor cores do make a difference there. Signed-off-by: Kurt Garloff <kurt@garloff.de>
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Standards/scs-0100-v3-flavor-naming.md

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| `I` | Intel | execution units (EUs) |
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For nVidia, the generation N can be f=Fermi, k=Kepler, m=Maxwell, p=Pascal, v=Volta, t=turing, a=Ampere,
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l=Ada Lovelace, g=Grace Hopper, b=Blackwell, ...,
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l=Ada Lovelace, g=Grace Hopper, b=Blackwell, u=BlackwellUltra, ...,
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for AMD GCN-x=0.x, CDNA-x=x, RDNA-x=x.1, RDNA-3.5=3.5, UDNA-x=x
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for Intel Gen9=0.9, Xe(12.1/DG1)=1, Xe(12.2)=2, Arc(12.7/DG2)=3, BattleImage(20.0)=4, ...
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(Note: This may need further work to properly reflect what's out there.)

Standards/scs-0100-w1-flavor-naming-implementation-testing.md

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##### Blackwell (`b`)
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##### Blackwell (`b`) and Blackwell Ultra (`u`)
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These have MIG support and 128 Cuda Cores and 4 Tensor Cores per SM.
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| GB200 | 1/2 | 320 | 10240 | 80 | 96G HBM3e | `GNb-80-96h` |
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| GB200 | 2/7 | 88+ | 5632+ | 44+| 45G HBM3e+| `GNb-44-45h`+ |
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| GB200 | 1/7 | 44+ | 2816+ | 22+| 23G HBM3e+| `GNb-22-23h`+ |
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| GB300 | 1/1 | 640 | 20480 | 160 | 288G HBM3e | `GNb-160-288h` |
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| GB300 | 1/2 | 320 | 10240 | 80 | 144G HBM3e | `GNb-80-144h` |
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| GB300 | 1/1 | 640 | 20480 | 160 | 288G HBM3e | `GNu-160-288h` |
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| GB300 | 1/2 | 320 | 10240 | 80 | 144G HBM3e | `GNu-80-144h` |
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[+] The precise numbers for the 1/7 MIG configurations are not known by the author of
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Note that Blackwell Ultra tensor cores have significant enough changes vs. Blackwell that we
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gave the BW Ultra GPUs a new letter `u`. In particular, FP4 tensor performance is over 150%
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of std. Blackwell and has more Special Function Units (which helps attention) but has
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regressed INT8 performance.
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| Nvidia GPU | Fraction | Tensor C | Cuda Cores | SMs | VRAM | SCS GPU name |
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|-----------------------|----------|----------|------------|-----|------------|----------------|
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| RTX Pro2000 Blackwell | 1/1 | 136 | 4352 | 34 | 16G GDDR7 | `GNb-34-16` |

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